Isabella Wing-Davey

Writer / Director

Isabella Wing-Davey is an award-winning writer/director, a Film Independent and New York Film Festival Artist Academy Fellow and two time nominee for the Kevin Spacey Foundation Artist of Choice award. Her short film, “The Rain Collector” (2015) starring Celine Buckens and Hermione Norris, received grants from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Alfred P Sloan Foundation award. It played at many Oscar and BAFTA-qualifying festivals around the world, including Leeds International Film Festival, London Short Film Festival (nominated: Best Woman Director), Dallas International Film Festival, IFFBoston, FLICKERS Rhode Island International Film Festival, Cambridge Film Festival, Fusion Film Festival (Audience Choice Award) and Woodstock Film Festival. It was produced by BAFTA-winning Wigwam Films and Thea Dunlap of Park Pictures. Her latest short film “Waiting”, starring Louisa Krause, was called “a masterpiece of observation” by Popdust.

Isabella received her MFA at New York University Tisch Grad film, under Todd Solondz and Alexandre Rockwell and was one of 10 writer/directors on the collaborative feature film, “Black Dog Red Dog”, produced by James Franco, starring Tim Blake Nelson and Chloe Sevigny. Isabella is in development with Park Pictures on her first feature film, “I Love my Sister” about a woman coming of age in New York via neuroscience and wedding planning, She is developing a a romantic comedy 6 part digital series with Adaptive Studios, and a feature film version of her award-winning short film “The Rain Collector”.

She is also an accomplished producer (“Afronauts” 2014: Sundance, Berlinale, “So You’ve Grown Attached” 2014: Student Academy Award finalist), and has worked in development and production (Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Cooper’s Town Productions 2012-2014), which adds to her knowledge and expertise of all areas of production, enriching her directing abilities.

Credits

IN DEVELOPMENT

Production (role):

I LOVE MY SISTER (Writer / Director)

Company:

PARK PICTURES

Project details:

Feature Film: Dr Julia Abrams, a neuroscientist in New York is forced into strange and comical situations as her work studying implicit gender bias butts up against her newfound role as Maid of Honor planning her sister's wedding.

Production (role):

THE RAIN COLLECTOR (Writer / Director)

Project details:

Feature Film: Based on her award winning short film (The Rain Collector) about a young woman finding purpose and love through science, inspired by true events.

Credits

Project details: Feature Film: Dr Julia Abrams, a neuroscientist in New York is forced into strange and comical situations as her work studying implicit gender bias butts up against her newfound role as Maid of Honor planning her sister's wedding.

Production (role): THE RAIN COLLECTOR (Writer / Director)

Company:

Project details: Feature Film: Based on her award winning short film (The Rain Collector) about a young woman finding purpose and love through science, inspired by true events.

Project details: Short Film: A short film about two sisters struggling with sibling rivalry, adulthood and depictions of women on stage in East London. Kevin Spacey Foundation Artist of Choice Shortlist 2016